Actually, the origins of this site have nothing to
do with bokeh. Rather, it started with a discussion about
Nikon lens versions (I think it was about the 1.8/50).

I found it very difficult to detect differences in
prime lenses by comparing the usual optical characteristics,
such as contrast and resolution. Thus the idea was born
to check if the lenses had different bokeh, and use
that as an indicator for different optical construction.

That did not work out at all.

Afterwards, I was left with a bunch of slides showing
unsharp light spots shining through tree leaves.
Instead of just throwing them away, I decided to
put them on the web, and thus bokeh.de was
born.

The site, and the number of test images, has grown
somewhat since then. I've even bought some lenses
just to take bokeh test shots (perverse, isn't it?)

Since I meant to mainly show images, I never intended
to translate the page into other languages. However,
bokeh.com, .net, and .org were already registered to
to other people, so I had to use bokeh.de.

I'm not a photographer, but rather one of those
hobbyists who care more for equipment that for actually
taking photos. Actually, I do like taking photos, but so
far I've not produced anything of reasonable quality.
But hey, I'm young (at least I sometimes feel that
way), and might still learn a thing or two.
If you'd like to see some of my attempts, look
at my
photograpy page.